Hankerton, Wiltshire

Historical Description

Hankerton, a village and a parish in Wiltshire. The village stands 3½ miles NE of Malmesbury station on the G.W.R. It has a post office under Malmesbury; money order and telegraph office, Crudwell. The parish includes also the tithing of Cloatley. Acreage, 2203; population, 335. The manor belongs to the Earl of Suffolk. The living is a vicarage in the diocese of Gloucester and Bristol; value, £190 with residence. Patron, the Rector of Crudwell. The church is ancient and good, with a tower.

Administration

The following is a list of the administrative units in which this place was either wholly or partly included.

Any dates in this table should be used as a guide only.

Church Records

The Phillimore transcript of Marriages at Hankerton 1700-1837, Wiltshire is available to browse online.

The register dates from the year 1699.

Findmypast, in association with the Wiltshire Record Office, have the following parish records online for Hankerton:

Churches

Church of England

Civil Registration

For general information about Civil Registration (births, marriages and deaths) see the Civil Registration page.

Directories & Gazetteers

We have transcribed the entry for Hankerton from the following:

• Samuel Lewis' A Topographical Dictionary of England, by Samuel Lewis, seventh edition, published 1858. (Hankerton (Holy Cross))

Maps

Online maps of Hankerton are available from a number of sites:

• Bing (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• Google Streetview.
• National Library of Scotland. (Old maps)
• OpenStreetMap.
• old-maps.co.uk (Old Ordnance Survey maps to buy).
• Streetmap.co.uk (Current Ordnance Survey maps).
• A Vision of Britain through Time. (Old maps)

Newspapers and Periodicals

The British Newspaper Archive have fully searchable digitised copies of the following Wiltshire papers online:

• Salisbury and Winchester Journal
• Devizes and Wiltshire Gazette
• Wiltshire Independent
• Swindon Advertiser and North Wilts Chronicle